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The Dalai Lama has previously said his successor will be born outside China and urged his followers to reject anyone chosen by Beijing.<br \/>The Dalai Lama said in a statement, &#8220;I am affirming that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue.&#8221;<br \/>He added that the Gaden Phodrang Trust, the non-profit that he set up to maintain and support the tradition and institution of the Dalai Lama, has the sole authority to recognise his future reincarnation in consultation with the heads of Tibetan Buddhist traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dalai Lama said on Wednesday that a non-profit that he has founded will have the sole authority to recognise his future reincarnation, countering China&#8217;s insistence that it will choose the successor of the Tibetan spiritual leader.The remarks by the leader, who turns 90 on Sunday, came during a week of celebrations to mark his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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